Proboat, boatbuilder magazine back issues available through online subscription to individuals

The professional boatbuilder magazine has become somewhat of an institution over the years and is an excellent read.  You dont have to be a professional builder to read all their back issues.  I signed on as an individual and feel that it's excellent value if your interested in building any sort of boat.  The articles are of high quality and the fee for access is reasonable. 

http://www.proboat.com/

The Light Brigade, Light displacement and multihull development by Gary Baigent

This excellent .pdf by New Zealander Gary Baigent delves into the history of light displacement monohull and multihull design and is an excellent read.

http://www.coolmobility.com.au/Yacht/LightBrigade.pdf

Here is a link to one of Gary's interesting design and build projects the foiler Sid

http://www.boatdesign.net/forums/multihulls/alternative-marvelous-buccaneer-24-a-32382.html

and some photos of Sid

Tony Bigras, A blog detailing his adventures on the micro cruising cat "Miss Cindy"

From Tony's site: These are the adventures of the 'Miss Cindy' a Turtle Island 16' Microcat cruiser. Departing mid October 2008 the plan is to travel from Vancouver Island Canada to San Felipe Mexico by road, down the Sea of Cortez to La Paz, across to Mazatlan, then down to San Juan del Sur Nicaragua. From there over land into Lake Nicaragua, sail in there a bit, then out the San Juan River past some rapids to the Caribbean. Cayman Brac to visit a wrecked boat, up to Cuba, then to Key West to enter the US. Along the way I have a few destinations, places I will visit, other places are just along the way: The Western Sea of Cortes, San Juan del Sur Nicaragua, Granada, Lago Nicaragua, Solentiname Islands, Rio San Juan, The Fort at El Castillo, San Juan del Norte, Cayman Brac, Cuba.

More of Miss Cindy's blog here

Lia Ditton reflecting on a delivery voyage on Foncia/ORMA 60

The plane was now in full taxi, the G-force pressing me into the green Air Italia seat in preparation for take-off from Valencia. I ran that thought once more- the aircraft was pressing me into the green Air Italia seat … then I realised it was the same feeling! It was the same feeling that I had tried to describe for the past 6 days, while sailing from Lorient to Valencia on Alain Gautier’s ORMA 60 trimaran Foncia.

The full Foncia team was onboard as we pulled away from Foncia HQ by the submarine base in Lorient. This was a good thing, a very good thing indeed I came to realise as 6 of us huffed and puffed in turns at the grinders in order to hoist the main. Alain had a weekend date with a Decision 35 on a Swiss lake, so after much arm waving goodbye, it was just the four of us; three to grind and one to helm as we unfurled the jib and ripped off towards the descending sun.

I was unsure at first if the crew would be comfortable with me at the helm - none of them knew me or had any idea of my experience, but Gautier’s choice of crew seemed to count for everything and after a moment’s instruction on how my priority was not the course or the wind angle, but to maintain a continuous 15kts, I was very shortly left to it. I was still having wonderful ‘I have been entirely let loose at the helm of an ORMA 60 cruising at 15kts / hold on-how did this happen?!’ thoughts when nearly two hours later, the skipper Mayeul [known affectionately as ‘Mama!’] came to relieve me. Had two whole hours really flown by? Could it be true that we had just torn 30 easy miles away before sunset?

more here on bymnews.com: lia loving Foncia

Dr Frank Smoot's DIY tri's website

Frank Smoot has designed and built quite a number of small sailing trimarans his very interesting website can be found on this link.

http://www.diy-tris.com/

And a video of one of Frank's interesting projects sailing.

A video of one of his folding off the beach trimarans

Steven Callahan interviews with multihull designers for Proboat magazine

A series of impressive interviews by Steven Callahan with a range of designers some exclusive multihull designers and others a portfolio of both multi and mono design.

Nigel Irens February 2000

Adrian Thompson December 2000

Morrelli and Melvin August 2001

Jim Antrim April 2002

Gold Coast Yachts April 2010

Dick Newick December 2010

Trimaran projects and Multihull News

I find myself posting news to multiple websites and forums now and thought it best to have one blog and a link that will prevent people who are not interested from needing to look at my posts which may be off topic or irrelevant or only interesting to me.  I'm currently running several projects notably trimarans a 2metre (RC Project) a 7.5metre (Kraken 25 off the beach trimaran) and a 12metre (A formula 40 trimaran project intended for offshore usage, a long term project that one).  I'll post updates here and any other multihull news that I find of interest.